How does same difference make sense

The transition from high school to college or college to grad school? Alexandre - and then there's the saying - "The more things change, the more they stay the same". Max-Eliot - it's just an idiom. And yes, of course it's about comparison of two things - but one where there's not really much difference. Warsaw Will speaks sense. Idioms just generally don't have that kind of logic. Well, most actual English doesn't, to be honest.

Could care less is awful, as it is completely incorrect. David Storey May As David Storey pointed out, it is plain grammatically incorrect to me. I do use the phrase, "I couldn't care less," as I think the idea behind the phrase is that one has reached the absolute zero of their level of caring, so it cannot be any less than that.

To me, "could care less" implies the speaker cares a bit more than not at all, and they could still drop to absolute zero in caring but have not yet. Warsaw Will -- Thanks for that great article on the phrase, too! It is, as you described, level-headed and I think brings up very interesting points on the matter. Is it in danger of putting form ahead of function?

Same difference, says Jobs. I was thinking in that Jobs quote, he could also have used another idiom - "They're two sides of the same coin". I can certainly see why some might find the oxymoron "same difference" irritating, but I have to agree with Will; it does make a certain kind of sense.

It means that two things actually are different, but for the purpose at hand, they are the same. To put it another way, yes, they're different but it doesn't matter. Personally, whenever I hear someone say "same difference", I always reply: "you mean like, seven and nine Oh, and as for "I could care less", I don't think it means that you do actually care a little. I've always understood it to be a sarcastic utterance, and as such, correctly meaning the same thing as "I couldn't care less", the type of thing that in days past would only be mumbled by a petulant teenager, usually preceded by "Oh, like And yes, I do realize that today, many use "I could care less" carelessly, without much thought or any sarcastic inflection.

Why were both our answers different from the answer sheet's? Same difference: we both used the wrong pronouns. It's just an expression; nothing to fret about.

Grammatical errors occur when these two words are used interchangeably. While they may mean similar things, their usage is entirely different. Keep these tips in mind the next time you want to compare ideas, things, or people. Enago Academy, the knowledge arm of Enago, offers comprehensive and up-to-date resources on academic research and scholarly publishing to all levels of scholarly professionals: students, researchers, editors, publishers, and academic societies.

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Subscribe for free to get unrestricted access to all our resources on research writing and academic publishing including:. We hate spam too. We promise to protect your privacy and never spam you. Alike and Same: What is the Difference? Good word choice. Reading time 3 minutes. Author Enago Academy. But three plus one equals four, too. And two times two equals four. Twenty divided by five equals, guess what, four. Heck, one million divided by , equals, you got it, four again.

People should quit freaking out over the Large Hadron Collider and start worrying about the number four. But he says he left to spend more time with his Airedale. I am not a slob, by the way. Not much, anyway. Do you have this dress in a same color? In addition to the appearance in text, the expression is used in the movie Dark Alibi.

It is spoken by the main character, Charlie Chan, at the end of the movie. The movie was recently shown on TCM, and may be available for view at their website. Personally i have always thought it fit this description: Man 1: Wow you bought a red car? Man 1: Same Difference.

Meaning: When you agree that what you said was not exactly correct, but you think the difference is not important. Cambridge Dictionary — British. Urban Dictionary — Global. Or: The difference between two things is not important. Cambridge Idioms Dictionary — British.